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exé n°62 — Téléphérique du Salève, an Inhabited Infrastructure

From the summit of Mont Salève, the view over Lake Geneva is breathtaking. To enjoy it, one must take the Salève cable car, inaugurated in 1932 and brilliantly renovated in 2023 by the firm Devaux & Devaux. The architects successfully adapted Maurice Braillard’s original work to contemporary use, while continuing the story of an unfinished modernist architectural heritage… Read the article

From the summit of Mont Salève, the view over Lake Geneva is breathtaking. To enjoy it, one must take the Salève cable car, inaugurated in 1932 and brilliantly renovated in 2023 by the firm Devaux & Devaux. The architects successfully adapted Maurice Braillard’s original work to contemporary use, while continuing the story of an unfinished modernist architectural heritage… Read the article

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exé Architecture Détail Technique
Publication date
Fall 2025
Author
Maryse Quinton
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